A week after a newly launched crimeware tracking service went public, cybercriminals didn't hesitate to prove its usefulness by launching a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against it.

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The author of Blackhole, an exploit kit that booby-traps hacked Web sites to serve malware, has done so well for himself renting his creation to miscreants that the software has emerged as perhaps the ...

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The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to force malicious hackers to focus more attention on looking for vulnerabilities in other desktop applications, such as Abobe's Acrobat Reader, experts ...

As businesses large and small have shifted their security concerns from financial cyberattacks to sophisticated threats, criminals have been constructing a well-run crimeware organization. An ...

As artificial intelligence, social engineering, and threat actor operations become increasingly sophisticated, organizations must take an agile, data-driven approach to cyber resilience.” — Chris ...

As if the news coming out of Wall Street these days wasn't gloomy enough, various security solution providers and analyst firms are projecting that layoffs and cutbacks in the tech industry will lead ...

It used to be that a password was enough to keep your online bank account relatively safe. Then you needed a second factor -- a text message or a one-time PIN, say -- to be sure thieves weren't ...

Within the world of IT security, one of the biggest concerns for companies and users is malicious code that can compromise their systems and/or information networks. This concern is not at all ...